Hom was a serf but he was not a serf from birth. Earlier, he was a miner in a mine.
Miners, not slave labor.
People who work in the mines are divided into two types: free miners and slave labor who are not free. The former are free people who voluntarily go to "dig stones" in dangerous mines to support their families, while the latter are It is the private property of the slave owner of the mine, which is equivalent to the tools and livestock in the mine, but there is no difference between the two in some respects. They are all consumables that will die in the mine at any time, and no one cares about them after death.
The process of Home losing his freedom is dramatic: he is not a "quiet" miner, he prefers to find new things, whether it is new ores or plants, rather than digging stones in the mine. In short, as long as it is something new. At this point, he was often teased that he might have some dwarf blood in his ancestry, but Holm had always accepted the teasing. He was working in the mine, thinking all day whether he could dig out some great treasure underground, and finally one day, he really "dig" out the "treasure".
He came across the scene where the mine owner's wife had an affair with a supervisor in the mine.
It is very simple for the supervisor to kill one or two miners or slave workers. As long as he uses reasons such as mine collapse afterwards, there will be no problem. Holm has even seen such a scene with his own eyes, so he immediately chose After running away, I never returned home.
After being a refugee for a year, he settled in Old Cecil. The previous Viscount Cecil did not expel him, but he had to rely on selling himself as a serf to survive.
Under normal circumstances, this is the whole content of his short and miserable life. After being locked on the land, the serf Hom's life will have no changes, no new opportunities and hopes, and he will bear the heavy pressure imposed by the landlord. Crawling in the dirt all his life, living the remaining ten years or fifteen years of his life as a serf, and if he is lucky (or unlucky) in the process to have an heir, then his heir will also inherit As a serf, he lived under the whip of the landlord for life after life, and his experience as a miner in his early years and the little and restless curiosity in his youth would one day completely disappear in his memory.
But after that disaster, everything changed.
The old Cecil is gone, the landlord is gone, and the land is gone. The new lord came out of the legend and led the survivors to build a new home at the foot of the dark mountains, facing a brand new land and full of secrets. In the dark mountain range, the lord promulgated one incredible new decree after another, and the serf Hom was rewarded for participating in making traps in the "defense battle" in the autumn. Freedmen are more free.
The lord allows the subjects to engage in a variety of jobs according to their personal strengths, and rewards anyone who works hard. On the bulletin board in the town center, new recruiting revelations are posted almost every day, and anyone in the territory who wants to subsidize more Anyone with a household can respond to the lord's call through this channel. For people in this era, it is an incredible gift for the lord to open up so many jobs and pay them, not to mention it is still the past. I can only starve to death at home in the winter, so whenever new recruitment revelations are posted, there will be countless people waiting for a job (or waiting to support their families) flocking to find a job that suits them.
The vast majority of people in the territory were originally illiterate. They could only listen to the soldiers standing in front of the bulletin board reading the contents for themselves, but the soldiers would only start reading the contents of the new revelation six hours after it was posted. In order to understand the content of the recruitment a few hours earlier, Holm insisted on learning thousands of words in just a few months, so that he could stumble across the content on the bulletin board.
In night schools, there are not a few people like him who work hard to read and write for similar motives: those who can read can know the details of the recruitment a few hours in advance, and go to the personnel department of the Ministry of the Interior to find a clerk to sign up, and wait until those When illiterate people sign up, all positions are often already full, and those who did not work hard to read at the beginning are now regretting it.
As for Home, he was very glad that he had learned the characters in time. When the lord announced that he would organize a new group of exploration teams into the mountains, he immediately signed up: the number of people required for this team is not large, although it is a bit risky, But the pay is higher than the technical workers in the factory. Besides, there is a small group of magic infantry in the team for protection, so how big is the risk
The newly organized mountain exploration team entered the Dark Mountains from a newly discovered mountain path, and saw many incredible mutant animals, plants, and stones along the way. With his experience in the mine, his flexible mind, and the best The literacy level became the leader of this team (of course, another important reason why he became the team leader was that he was personally rewarded by the lord, which is a rare honor), and under his leadership, the team changed from a loose texture to The peculiar "raw stone" with lavender luster was found in the weathered mountain rocks.
In the process, Hom's curiosity that was gradually worn down by life gradually recovered...
Under the leadership of the soldiers, Gawain and Amber found the "exploration team stronghold" in the dark mountains. Guarding around the small camp, Gao Wen met the leader of this exploration team, a short but strong middle-aged man.
Looking at the other person's dark face and slightly hunched body, Gao Wen felt familiar for a while, and the memory of the satellite spirit played a good role at this time, and he remembered that he really knew this person: the confrontation in the autumn In the war against Cecil of the mutant, a serf named Home was rewarded for his outstanding performance, and in order to set a good example, he also publicly commended him. Facts have proved that he was right.
"I remember your name is Home." Gawain nodded to the serf-born leader, "You participated in this expedition?"
"Yes... yes, my lord!" Hom didn't expect Gao Wen to remember his name, and he was a little panicked, "You personally awarded me a... a medal!"
"You're a little fatter than before, that's good," Gawain nodded with a smile, "You discovered the ore?"
"Yes, my lord." Holm tried hard to control his nervousness. He had already been on the award platform once, and he was a little calmer than ordinary people. "The original discovery location is not far from here. I Showing you…”
On an open-air rock formation not far from the camp, Gawain saw several collection points dug by the exploration team.
This kind of ore with huge potential value is "buried" in such a shallow place.
Gawain came to the collection point, and he saw that the surface of the ore was covered with a thick gray-white porous rock layer that seemed to have been weathered, and some ores with a lavender or light blue luster were "embedded" in it. It seems to be some kind of condensation nucleus.
"The surface layers are all very small pieces of ore. The further you dig down, the greater the quality and volume of the ore will be. The ore veins that are really worth mining should still need to be dug deeper," Holm explained, "This kind of The soft and weathered rock formations are not suitable for mining and are prone to collapse, so it should be better to open a mine directly. If there are Rebecca crystals, it is not difficult to blast the rock formations."
Gawain nodded: "I saw the report you sent back. You found many things that have never been seen in the outside world, and there are signs of mutation in all animals and plants."
"Yes, my lord," Holm replied, "but this is the first time that minerals on such a large scale as here have been discovered."
Gawain let out a "hmm", and slightly raised his head to observe the surrounding terrain. Seven hundred years ago, Gawain Cecil led his army to search for a way in the dark mountains. At that time, this place was not affected by the demon tide. In Cecil's memory, there are no such strange things here.
They all appeared after the magic tide.
Amber took out her dagger, and curiously picked out a fragment mixed with blue-purple luster from one of the excavated rocks at one of the collection points, and put it under the sun to observe: "What a strange thing, old... Gao Wen, is this what you said, the change of natural matter under the influence of the magic tide?"
"The essence of the magic tide is a surge of extremely powerful magic power. Although this part of magic power cannot be used by mortals, it can still have a profound impact on the natural environment," Gao Wen said casually, "Believe it or not, in the ancient deep blue well There are far more magic ingredients to be found in the ruins of the siege than here."
Hu Po's eyes widened: "How reckless a person would dare to mine there!"
Gao Wen shook his head, but did not answer her question.
He looked at the ore in front of him, but his thoughts were not limited to the ore in front of him.
He once guessed that the demon tide might not have erupted just once.
The monitoring satellite left in the sky is obviously an early warning facility against the magic tide (or similar phenomena). The previous disaster in Cecil Territory also showed signs that the magic tide is about to come back, and he used to hang in the sky In the monitoring records, it has also been observed that all civilizations on the land suddenly disappear inexplicably, and the entire ecological circle reshuffles and restarts, generally starting from scratch.
In the "satellite era", his observations of the earth were incoherent due to severe "frame skipping", so many times he could not understand how those earth-shattering changes on the earth's surface occurred in the blink of an eye. After firing the magic cannon, they blinked again, and they lived in the tree hole again, wearing animal skins around the campfire and dancing in the square, the geological landforms and plant distribution in the field of vision were also turned upside down There may be decades of destructive wars in the middle, and there may also be floods and tsunamis in seventy-seven forty-nine days, but for satellite elites who have a frame of one thousand years, this "quick and short" moment of disaster is really Hard to catch.
But something must be causing this "shuffling" If there is no other answer, then the only answer is the magic tide.
Magic tides can cause changes in the properties of substances in nature, and these things that have never been seen elsewhere in the dark mountains are enough to prove this.
And even if the magic tide fades, these changed things will not return to their original state, but will solidify into a new material material. The ore found in the dark mountains can also prove this point.
Then if more than one demon tide has happened in the world, Gao Wen has reason to believe that most things in this world have probably been affected by the demon tide.
He produced one of the most daring conjectures ever:
Those magic materials, magic creatures, or ordinary soil and rocks that seem to have nothing to do with magic power have been gradually shaped into what they are today in the baptism of the magic tide.
The magic tide is a "world-shaping phenomenon" that will continue to occur and still has no signs of stopping today.